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The history of my Abby family in New England starts with John Abby who came on the Bonaventure Jan. 2, 1634. He was an early settler of Wenham, Mass. John was born abt. 1613 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and died abt. 1689 in Salem, Massachusetts. He married Mary Loring abt. 1635 in Salem , Massachusetts.
Mary was born abt. 1615 in Dorset, England and died Sept. 9, 1672 in Wenham, Mass. Mary's father was Thomas Loring born abt. 1575, and died Sept. 4. 1661 in Hull, Plymouth Mass. Mary's mother was Jane Newton, who may have come from Devon England, and died in Hull, Plymouth Mass.
John is listed in a number of land transactions in Salem. He lived in the part of Salem which was incorporated into Wenham in 1643. After Mary died in 1672, he married again, on Nov. 25, 1674, Mary Goldsmith, who was probably the widow of Richard Goldsmith.
My line descends from John through his son Thomas who married Sarah Fairfield.
Children of John Jr. and Mary Loring are:
1. John Abbe, born 1636 in Salem, Massachusetts; died December 11, 1700 in Windham, Connecticut he was a yoeman.
2. Sarah Abbe, born 1638.
3. Maria Abbe, born 1642.
4.Samuel Abbe, born at. 1646 in Wenham, Sex, Massachusetts; died March 8,1697 in Wind ham, Windham, Connecticut. Married to Mary Knowlton
5. Rebecca Abbe, born 1647 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died June 1704 in Wenham, Massachusetts, married to Richard Kimball.
6. Obadiah Abbe, born between 1647 - 1652 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died October 28, 1732 in Enfield, Connecticut. He married Sarah Tibbals.
7. Thomas Abbe, born abt. 1650-1656 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died May 17, 1728 in Enfield, Connecticut. He married Sarah Fairfield December 16, 1683 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
There is a lot of information about the Abbes (Abby, Abbie) families out there published in the traditional manner and on the web.
See direct line to my NY Terrys
More interesting Abbe information:
Miscellaneous snippets from the Abby Memorial
Lots of bits of information about the Enfield Abbes:
An Historical Sketch of the Town of Enfield,
By John Chauncey Pease, M. D., 1829.
Enfield's first first: from the Abby Memorial
Enfield's Men of the Revolution: from the Abby Memorial
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